Join me on my birthday to celebrate local craft at one of my absolute favorite markets, the Patchwork Market! I will have naturally dyed goods, hand-embroidered clothing for little ones, beeswax candles and many other items made by my heart and hands.

Students who have had some basic exposure to natural dyeing: this one’s for you!

Learn more concentrated techniques such as over-dyeing, working with different mordants/afterbaths, and color mixing. Students will work with sample-sized pieces of natural fiber fabric to build their catalog of natural dye examples.

This workshop is geared toward teens and adults who want to learn to spin using a drop spindle. We will have the special pleasure of working with 1870’s alpaca fiber and getting to meet their alpacas before spinning their fiber into soft, luxurious yarn.

This will be such a fun class! We are going to walk through the basics of macrame and complete a beautiful wall hanging that doubles as a hanging planter, all while enjoying the ambiance at the lovely Indio Durham. All supplies included. Details will be on Indio’s website by mid-March.

Join me for a two-hour workshop that focuses on one of many inspiring Japanese hand-craft techniques- sashiko. The literal translation means “small stabs,” an intricate, somewhat tedious technique that was once used in boro-style mending. Sashiko became a widely used decorative stitching technique and is still practiced today. In the US and around the world, it’s being resurrected as a mending technique used on jeans- but it’s so much more than that. Join me for a two-hour session that digs deeper into the practice of sashiko. We’ll cover:

-basic practice

-tools

-laying out and preparing a pattern

-history of sashiko in Japan and around the world

My goal with all of the teaching I do is to help preserve the authenticity and practice of hand-craft and sashiko is one of my favorite workshops to offer.

Join Diana for a fun workshop that will walk you through how to make your own beeswax coated snack wraps. You’ll have the opportunity to make several for yourself and learn how to care for them. Make the switch to reusable wraps and bowl clings!

This will be TTC’s first appearance at the Carrboro ArtsCenter’s Elf Fair. Diana is so excited to spend the day with many talented vendors in such a wonderful venue! TTC will have scarves, gifts, candles and stocking stuffers for everyone on your list, so be sure to come check us out!! Looking forward to seeing you there.

In this workshop, participants will learn the basics of decorative stitching, sashiko, and a practical boro-style stitching, a visible mending technique. These trendy skills are useful for repairing clothes and textiles and for adding your own touch to old clothes and thrift store finds. Diana will walk through the basics on how to design and stitch a range of decorative sashiko patterns and how to use visible mending to repair clothing and linens. Participants are encouraged to bring a pair of jeans, an item of clothing, or a home textile to visibly mend during the workshop. Scrap material for practice will be provided as well as needles, thread and thimbles.

Natural dyeing is making a comeback! Join textile artist Diana Cathcart for a visual exploration of natural dyeing in North Carolina. Participants will learn about native dyestuffs that grow in the Piedmont region of NC, as well as non-native plants that can be grown here with relative ease. Diana will give a brief overview of the natural dye process as well. Attendees are encouraged to ask as many questions as they’d like.

Join Diana at the Durham Arts Council for a half-day workshop where you'll learn the basics of natural dyeing. We'll walk through the major components of the natural dye process and experiment with ethically sourced natural dyes, including black walnut, a plant native to the US and NC. Students will take home several dye samples of varying materials as well as resources to support their continued practice at home.

Cost: $27 per person plus $30 materials fee for use of dyes and materials in class

Students will learn the process of dyeing with natural indigo, a centuries old dyestuff that produces a beautiful spectrum of blue. Participants will learn about and practice the three major components of the natural dye process- scouring, mordanting, and dyeing. They will have the opportunity to experiment with various resist dyeing techniques and exposure times. Participants will use cotton material for the dye process, and each student will get to dye and take home a skein of wool or alpaca yarn.